How to Grow Rosehips

Rose hips provide an attractive, natural garden accent.

In the days before deadheading and sterile cultivars, every rose (Rosa) finished its growing season by producing rounded, red fruit. Many roses lost their so-called hips along the way to modern gardens, but some species continue to produce the attractive fruit that decorate bare rose branches into winter. Rose hips contain seeds for future roses and are edible, high in vitamin C and delicious in jams and jellies. Birds, deer, rabbits and squirrels gladly consume those hips left on the shrub.

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